I little wrong, a little right.
I am saying that this site in order to be successful needs to cater to the largest amount of types of traders out there.
If RB is any indicator, the largest number of investors/traders out there falls into the "I bought the stock because someone said it's the next MSFT and I could buy a gazillion shares with my weekly allowance, and anyone who says something bad about it is trying dash my hopes and dreams, therefore they're evil." group.
Although RB aliases could be like American wealth: 10% of the users have 80% of the aliases. <g>
We're not aiming to be the biggest. Achieving the quality of SI and TMF is more important than the quantity of RB or Yahoo. If you look around at Yahoo and RB, it's apparent that the kind of emphasis I'm talking about is incompatible with reaching their kind of size.
I believe the pie (market for message boards) is so large that we can afford to focus on a relatively small slice and still not go hungry.
In any event, RB and Yahoo use advertising for their income. All of it. To do that, you do need to appeal to everyone.
We're relying on subscriptions for our income. Because of that, not only does it not benefit us to appeal to "everyone", it would be counter-productive. The types of people who would wave plastic at us are typically the one's who're into civil, intelligent discourse. Definitely not the RB/Yahoo focus.
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